2016 Hugh MacLennan Lecture- Thomas King
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Channel: McGill University · 2016 · News & Politics
McGill's Friends of the Library are proud to host the Blue Metropolis First Peoples Literary Prize Event at the 2016 Hugh MacLennan Memorial Lecture. First Nations advocate & Governor General’s Award winning author, Thomas King was interviewed by Rosanna Deerchild, host of CBC Radio’s Unreserved. Sponsored by Donald Walcot, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation & the Chadha Foundation Thomas King, who is of Cherokee and Greek descent, is a novelist, scriptwriter, and photographer. In 2004, he was awarded the Order of Canada. In 2012, his second non-fiction book, The Inconvenient Indian, won the National B.C. Non-Fiction Award and the Charles Taylor Prize. In 2014, he was awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, for Back of the Turtle.
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